Promoting Teacher Leadership

03/24/2016

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work; you don't give up.
Anne Lamott

The Mindshift article, "7 Qualities That Promote Teacher Leadership in Schools" addresses the issue that our current education system isn't appropriately preparing young people for the future and proposes investing in "teacher leadership" as a solution. Although this is written from the perspective of high school education, the seven qualities that must be in place to promote teacher leadership, apply to ECE settings as well:

A vision and strategy for teacher leadership
A supportive administration
Appropriate human and fiscal resources
Work structures that enable authentic collaboration
Supportive social norms and working relationships
Blurred lines between roles
Risk-taking and inquiry

Contributed by Kirsten Haugen

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